This paper studies the intergenerational effects of parental unemployment on students' transitions after completing … adverse impact of parental unemployment on children's educational transitions. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio … mediation analysis suggests that the effect of paternal unemployment is not due to the loss of income, but relates to the …

The German schooling system selects children into different secondary school tracks already at a very early stage in … secondary schooling achievements display a strong correlation with parental income. We use sibling fixed effects models and … information on a natural experiment in order to analyze whether this correlation is due to a causal effect of income or due to …

around the first childbirth. By analyzing the German Socioeconomic Panel Survey data, we find that high-income parents enjoy … these findings in terms of preferences among different groups of parents and the differential costs of children - the latter …We investigate the role of individual labor income as moderator of the parental subjective well-being trajectories …